Punta Hermosa: The municipality asks residents of Playa Norte and Playa Central to evacuate to high areas due to reports of landslides.

Municipality of beautiful point phoned the residents of the specified area of ​​Lima, especially the residents of the city of Lima. northern beach And central beachevacuate in an emergency.

“A large-scale rainstorm is being reported that will hit our area hard,” he warned via his Twitter account.

The commune also urged residents not to approach the riverbed and not to go out on a hill.

In an interview with RPP, Marco Cerni, assistant head of the civil defense department of Punta Hermosa, warned of a dam failure in the Pampa Pacta gorge, called the “Devil’s Eye”, located in the Santo Domingo de los Oleros district of the province of Huarochiri.

“More than half an hour ago, contact was made with one of the farms that is in the path of this waterfall, which is a hill where it collides, and the stream practically divided it into water to beautiful point and water for the Cruz de Hueso stream, which is collected black tip”, he explained.

“Most of the water goes black tip, for us it is not much coming, but we do not know how much volume. As a precaution, we are evacuating the lower part and waiting for it to reach another populated part to find out how much, ”he added.

Senamhi warns that thread activation will continue

The National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology of Peru (Senamhi) reported that wacos the events that have taken place in recent days in the gorges of the department of Lima have changed their course.

The statement indicated that the soils are oversaturated due to rainfall, which contributes to rapid runoff. Therefore, today it would beto new stream activationmainly in the river basin. Rimac, such as those located in Saint Eulalia and Chosika.

Indeed, landslides in Pedegral, Rayo de Sol, Inca Cola and Santa Eulalia intensified this afternoon after heavy rains in Chosik.

Similarly, Senamhi argued that the reactivation of the ravine at Punta Hermosa would likely take place this Sunday the 19th.

preparations

Therefore, he recommended that citizens take precautions in this case, staying away from the zone of influence.

Peru’s National Meteorological and Hydrological Service also said that moderate to heavy rain is expected to continue in the coming days, according to weather warning No. 53 for precipitation on the northern coast and in the mountains.

specialists senamhi They explained that this is due to the fact that the humidity is concentrated in the middle and upper part of the western slopes.

For its part, Indeci, given the warning of moderate to heavy precipitation (snow, hail, sleet and rain) in the departments of Ancash, Apurimac, Arequipa, Ayacucho, Cajamarca, Cusco, Huancavelica, Huanuco, Ica, Junin, La Libertad, Lima, Moquegua, Pasco, Piura, Puno, Tacna and Tumbes, which will appear from Sunday March 19 to Monday March 20, called on local and/or regional authorities to verify that evacuation routes are cleared and properly signposted to direct the population to a safe area and away from the riverbed or streams, as landslides and mudflows can occur; and the availability of medical centers, fire departments, and police stations in the jurisdiction in case of an emergency.

Likewise, he asked the population to protect and strengthen the roof of their houses, and to install an early warning system using whistles, bells, alarms, sirens or loudspeakers, in agreement with the local authorities.